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Users can go to the movies once a day for $9.95 a month. While multiplexes doubt that’s sustainable, the chief executive, who slashed the price, says, “We seem to have hit a nerve in America.”
The deepening troubles threaten to further destabilize a nation facing a dire recession and unbridled crime, as well as food and medicine shortages.
A lavish new staging of Puccini’s “Tosca,” envisioned as an act of redemption, loses three singers and two conductors. But the show must go on.
Following a tax overhaul in the United States, Beijing has announced a temporary exemption for foreign firms investing in certain sectors.
Can the electrifying power of #MeToo be harnessed to the slow slog of building a more gender-equal society?
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 27, 2017, covering December 28, 2017.
Luke Bryan
Taylor Swift
Ed Sheeran
Pentatonix
Various Artists
2017Rose Marie, American actress and comedienne (born 1923)[†]
Rose Marie Guy, known professionally as Rose Marie, was an American actress, singer, comedian, and vaudeville performer with a career spanning nine decades, which included film, radio, records, theater, night clubs and television. As a child performer from the late 1920s onward, she had a successful singing career under the stage name Baby Rose Marie.
In 2017, the world population was approximately 7,645,617,954 people[†]